UPDATE statement involving entire records : ROWTYPE « PL SQL Data Types « Oracle PL/SQL Tutorial

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3. ROWTYPE

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SQL> create table product(
  2     product_id number(4)     not null,
  3     product_description varchar2(20) not null
  4  );

Table created.

SQL>
SQL> insert into product values (1,'Java');

1 row created.

SQL> insert into product values (2,'Oracle');

1 row created.

SQL> insert into product values (3,'C#');

1 row created.

SQL> insert into product values (4,'Javascript');

1 row created.

SQL> insert into product values (5,'Python');

1 row created.

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SQL>
SQL> DECLARE
  2    TYPE myRecord IS RECORD
  3      (product_id NUMBER,
  4       product_description VARCHAR2(20));
  5    v_example_rec myRecord;
  6  BEGIN
  7    v_example_rec.product_id :=99;
  8    v_example_rec.product_description :='Web';
  9    UPDATE product SET ROW =v_example_rec WHERE product_id =99;
 10    COMMIT;
 11  END;
 12  /

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

SQL>
SQL> drop table product;

Table dropped.